December 28, 2012

B003D0TAM8.01._SX490_SCLZZZZZZZ_V190274968_The slowest blogging week of the year is the week between Christmas and the New Year. I’ve certainly done my part to reflect this reality.

Every year I encourage folks to read their Bibles through. It is a surprisingly easy task if one decides to do it. Here is a plan that might work better for some than simply starting at the beginning and ploughing through to Revelation. In a similar vein Read the Bible for Life: Your Guide to Understanding and Living God’s Word is $2.99 in the Kindle and Nook format. On the Amazon site, 11 people reviewed the book and all of them rated it at 5 stars.

It always kind of irks me when people say that Christianity is about a relationship and not a religion. Okay, I understand the emphasis but what about the verses that talk about “religion?” Here Erik Raymond offers some helpful balance to the issue.

Kevin DeYoung briefly discusses why Jesus is so offensive to many.


Here is the year in numbers. Many are quite sobering.

Sometimes animals hide in plain sight. Can you find them in these photos?

Finally, Ed Stetzer shares the best church signs of 2012.

“When a man is perfectly swayed by the love of Christ he will be a perfect Christian: when a man is growingly under its influence he is a growing Christian; when a man is sincerely affected by the love of Christ he is a sincere Christian; but he in whom the love of Christ has no power whatever is not a Christian at all.”

C.H. Spurgeon